Lead Machine Learning Engineer
May Mobility2 months ago
Base Salary
$220k - $270k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, train, and evaluate state-of-the-art models for autonomous driving, simulation, and the ML platform stack.
- Apply emerging techniques in end-to-end driving, Vision Language Action, world models, and foundation models to commercial-scale problems.
- Lead small cross-functional teams of engineers beyond the state of the art.
- Define data balancing, training experiment, and evaluation practices for efficient petabyte-scale model training.
- Analyze and address long-tail failure cases in large models.
- Process and characterize large multimodal datasets exceeding 100 TB.
Requirements
- At least four years of industry experience working on commercial robotics systems.
- At least one year of mentoring machine learning engineers in a commercial or laboratory environment.
- Master’s degree in Robotics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a field with a strong mathematical or engineering foundation, or comparable knowledge or experience.
- Extensive practical experience in Vision Language Action Models, Generative World Models, Foundation Models in Robotics, or Data Centric AI.
- Strong programming skills in Python and PyTorch in a Linux environment.
- Functional understanding of LiDAR, camera, and radar processing techniques.
- Practical experience handling long-tail problems in machine learning.
- Experience leading teams of 2–3 engineers and communicating technical details to interdisciplinary leadership.
- Preferred qualifications include a PhD or published research, familiarity with post-training techniques, experience deploying models to resource-constrained edge hardware, and understanding of C/C++/CUDA memory and threading models.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverage, with domestic partner eligibility after one year of cohabitation.
- Health Savings Accounts and Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare and dependent care.
- Retirement benefits with an immediately vested employer safe harbor match.
- Generous paid parental leave and phased return-to-work program.
- Flexible vacation policy and paid company holidays.
- Total Wellness Program resources.
- Standard office working conditions with prolonged sitting, standing, and computer use; low travel requirement of 5%–10%.
Categories
ML EngineeringRobotics
About May Mobility
May Mobility builds and operates autonomous vehicle technology for shared transit and ride-hail services. The company runs autonomous shuttles and driverless pilots with partners like Uber, Lyft, and Grab across deployments in the U.S. and Japan. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, it sells autonomy-powered transportation services to cities and communities, having completed over 500,000 rides.